Radicalisation Engagement

Weekly outline

• Introduction
  

  Introduction

  Radicalisation is one of the most significant threats to face young people today. While many assume that only disadvantaged members of ethnic minorities are at risk, the evidence suggests that people from all backgrounds can be drawn to violent extremist movements. 

  This research in a box contains teaching resources developed as part of Lancaster University’s Politics and International Relations programme of outreach and the work of The Richardson Institute, Britain’s oldest Peace and Conflict research centre. It uses the case of conflict involving ISIS in the Middle East to enable students to engage with the international issue of radicalisation, before considering local responses to extremism in a range of contexts. 

  The ‘box’ contains a series of electronic resources, including PowerPoint decks with embedded videos
and PDF guides intended to enable teachers to run a university-style three week module on the subject. The materials are reliable, coherent resources which support active learning activities, including a role play, capable of introducing students to core issues of relevance in studies of radicalisation. 

  The materials are hosted on Lancaster University’s designated Radicalisation Engagement Open
Learning site: https://openlearning.lancs.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=165

  Evaluations of the role play by teachers and students can be found in the two videos immediately below as well as the evaluation report drawn from completed questionnaires.

  
  

  • Announcements Forum
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  • Instructions for teachers File
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  • Evaluation of role play 2015-2016 File
• Session 1: The latest Middle East crisis: Who is fighting?
  

  Session 1: The latest Middle East crisis: Who is fighting?

  This deck introduces students to the conflict involving ISIS in the Middle East, identifying the interested parties and examining their motivations. This prepares students to participate in the role play. At the end of the session, students should be provided with the Role play outline PDF and a schedule for the event which will enable them to prepare for the role play in week two. 
  

  • PowerPoint 1: The latest Middle East crisis: Who is fighting and why? File
• Session 2: Role Play guidance and resources
  

  Session 2: Role Play guidance and resources

  The PowerPoint deck uses videos taken from a role play at Fuse Media Centre, Prudhoe Community High School, to prepare facilitators to run the role play. There is an associated Further Guidance PDF to assist facilitators. These resources should be used by facilitators independently of the students involved in the role play. The Role play outline PDF also provides guidance to facilitators as to action to be taken in advance of the role play. 

  However, the Role play outline PDF ought to be distributed to students in advance of the role play session, as its contents guide and enable planning among students as they approach the role play. As part of their planning, students should be directed to the videos embedded below of a Question Time-style event which examines the crisis. 
  

  
  

  • PowerPoint 2: Role play guidance File
  • Further guidance PDF File
  • Role play outline File
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• Session 3: What is radicalisation?
  

  Session 3: What is radicalisation?

  This deck builds on the role play to enable students to explore means of challenging radicalisation, examining the motivations of people who join extremist groups and developing a range of possible approaches to the issue.

  
  

  • PowerPoint 3: What is radicalisation? File
• Politics/IR at Lancaster
  

  Politics/IR at Lancaster

  This section contains a PowerPoint walk-through of studying Politics/IR at Lancaster, as well as a series of videos produced by 3rd year undergraduate students which explain politics and seek to explore its relevance to young people. 
  

  • Politics and IR at Lancaster University File
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